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Your eyes are like doves. Your hues, appearance and characteristics³I.e., עיניך here does not mean your “eyes” but your “characteristics,” i.e., appearance, as in כעין הבדלח, meaning, “as the appearance of crystal,” in Bamidbar 11:7. (Sifsei Chachomim) are like those of a dove, which cleaves to its mate, and when they slaughter it, it does not struggle but stretches forth its neck; so have you given your shoulder to bear My yoke and My fear. From within your kerchief;

The fourth question arises from the phrase, 'Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.' (Numbers 11:7-8) What caused them to suddenly remember the perfection of the manna, even though it had already been explained in an organized manner in the sequence of events in Parashat Beshalach? Additionally, they did not mention any negative aspect of the manna. Rather, they expressed that besides the fact that it was good food, they had nothing else. What was the perfection that the Torah mentions when it says that the manna descended upon the camp at night?

וידעתם היום כי לא את בניכם אשר לא ידעו, “and you will know this day, that not with your children who did not know, etc.” This verse tells that all the wonderful deeds performed by the Lord which Moses speaks about are not events which will happen in the future [like the promises of prosperity in the land of Canaan he had told them about. Ed.] Rather, “you yourselves have seen all this with your own eyes.” Everything we read here is an introduction to verse 7: “for you have seen.” Moses recalls that the people (or most of them, those 40 years and over) have been witnesses to what he is describing. If we find Moses relating to Datan and Aviram and what happened to them while omitting mention of Korach who was the leader of that rebellion, the reason may well be that he felt ashamed that a member of his own family had become guilty of such a sin. Or, he may have singled out Datan and Aviram as they had exceeded everyone else in their demagoguery and their effrontery, strutting around cursing, etc. (compare Tanchuma Korach 8).